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Status Valued Goal Objects and Performance Expectations.

I designed an experiment to test predictions, derived from expectation states theories, that the unequal allocation of social rewards among collective task-focused actors will affect the actors' rates of power and prestige behavior. Past research shows that allocations of exchangeable resources can...

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Published in:Social Forces (University of North Carolina Press) Vol. 87; no. 3; pp. 1623 - 1649
Main Author: Hysom, Stuart J.
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / UK March 2009
Subjects:
Social status
Prestige
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